Stick your feet on the soles of your feet for 7 hours and turn black and oily.
Drop distilled water for 30 seconds, and it will change color.
Searching on Taobao, I found that there are quite a few foot stickers with different effects, but several foot stickers with the function of eliminating dampness, expelling toxin and liposuction are the best sellers. There are 300 to 400 shops in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai alone, and the price of each shop ranges from 0.3 yuan to 2.5 yuan, with the best business selling 6.5438+0.7 million pieces a month.
"Curious Lab" bought two different brands of foot stickers online, which are different from ordinary plasters. There are small medicine bags in bags, gray powder and pungent smell of traditional Chinese medicine. The store said that the darker the medicine bag is attached to the sole of the foot, the more detoxification will be, and a layer of oil can be seen, indicating that it is liposuction to lose weight; Insist on using it, the color becomes lighter, and the poison is almost discharged.
Two kinds of foot stickers were put on the soles of two colleagues. After 7 hours, the foot stickers really turned black and looked greasy. "I feel a little hot on the soles of my feet, but it's not the medicine." Reporter Lu Wen said.
Is it sweat, body temperature, or moisture in the air that naturally turns the mat black? Then we did three groups of comparative experiments: exposing the foot paste to the air, sticking it on the running computer case (for fear of polluting the environment, it was specially wrapped with a layer of plastic wrap), and pouring a little distilled water. The result is-
The color of the foot patch exposed to the air on the computer case is normal, but the foot patch stained with a little distilled water begins to change color after 30 seconds, and the color becomes darker and darker, and a layer of oil is secreted on the surface. Cut open the packaging bag, pour out the powder and add distilled water. The result is the same.
Detoxification in TCM theory
Not to excrete toxins.
In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, there are many conditioned reflex zones in the soles of human feet. Can you detoxify by applying drugs to specific parts?
Mo Xiaofeng, deputy director of acupuncture department of Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that many people have a misunderstanding about detoxification, thinking that detoxification is as simple as expelling toxic substances from the body as mentioned in the foot patch. The more you sweat, the more you detoxify, which is incorrect. In fact, in Chinese medicine, detoxification is a process of regulating physique.
After reading the product introductions of two kinds of foot stickers, the ingredients are roughly the same, mainly "bamboo sticks". Tao Jin, chief physician of Chinese Medicine Department of Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that bamboo vinegar is a substance extracted from bamboo, not a Chinese herbal medicine. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is almost impossible to detoxify by oral administration and acupoint external application.
"Regular massage of the soles of the feet and stimulation of acupoints can improve blood circulation, but it only has a health care effect." Mo Xiaofeng, deputy director of acupuncture department of Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that the plantar reflex zone corresponds to different organs of the body, but the reflex zone corresponding to stimulation has absolutely no detoxification effect, and there is no saying that toxins are directly excreted through acupoints.
As for the blackening of the foot patch, both doctors said that it can't be caused by toxins in the human body. It is very likely that the skin's own metabolites, such as sweat and oil, contact with the ingredients in the foot patch and change the color. "There may be water-soluble ingredients in the foot patch, which will change color when exposed to water and adhere to the outside of the foot patch."
There is almost no fat on the soles of your feet.
Liposuction is impossible.
Many female friends use the "foot patch", and the more they look at the medicine bag changing into oil, the happier they are, thinking that their excess fat has been sucked out, which is at best a psychological comfort.
"There is almost no fat on people's soles. Getting fat from below is nonsense. " Xiang Changfeng, president of Hangzhou Tongxin Plastic Surgery Hospital, said that the common ways to lose weight are exercise, dieting or liposuction to reduce fat cells in the body. Even diet pills can achieve the goal of losing weight by reducing body moisture. No medicine can make fat out of the body surface through external application, let alone fat-free soles.
Dean Changfeng said that the color of human fat is white with yellow, while the color of oil secreted by foot paste is black, which is not in line with common sense. "It is likely that the excrement of the sole of the foot, such as the stratum corneum and sweat, is mixed together and reacts with the ingredients in the foot patch to form black grease."